3.3rd Person Limited POV: The narrator focuses on the thoughts & feelings of 1 character; you see the story from this character's eyes only.

4.Context Clues: A vocabulary strategy in which the reader looks at the words around an unfamiliar word to find clues to its meaning.

5.Euphemism: A polite or vague word or phrase used to replace another word or phrase that is thought of as too direct or rude. Ex: The room where the toilet is. My dog passed away.

6.Foreshadowing: A narrative device that hints at coming events: often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.

7.Hyperbole: The use of exaggeration for emphasis not meant to be taken literally. Ex: Someday I"ll have tons of money. She cried a floood of tears.

8.Idiom: Commonly used expressions that are not literallt true; figure of speech.
Ex. " break a leg", "piece of cake", " fell in love"

9.Imagery/Sensory Language ( same thing): Language that appeals to the five senses: sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch.

10.Irony: The contrast between what is expected & what really happens. Ex: A shoemaker wears shoes with holes in them.

11.Literary Features: Explain the effects of common literary devices (ex. symbolism, imaginery, metaphor) in a variety of fictional and nonfictional texts.

12.Metaphor: A figure of speech that compares 2 unlike things by saying that one thing is the other. Ex: The world is a stage.

13.Mood: The overall emotion created by the work of literature. Ex: eerie, dreamy, mysterious, depressing.

14.Onomatopoeia: The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggest its meaning. Ex: crash, bang, hiss, crunch, buzz

15.Personification (special kind of Metaphor): When you give something that is nonhuman or nonliving (animals, plants, forces of nature, or abstract thoughts of love) human attributes & qualities. Ex: Love of kind. The leaves danced along the sidewalk.